Reuters Science And Technology News: 30 November 2008
December 1st, 2008 • Reuters, Science, Technology
- Restaurateur tracks down bill dodgers on Facebook
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian restaurateur left holding a hefty unpaid bill when five young diners bolted used the popular social network website Facebook to track them down — and they got their just desserts. - Blogs feed information frenzy on Mumbai attacks
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Bloggers across Mumbai fed live updates of the action after Islamist gunmen launched waves of attacks in the heart of India’s financial capital, highlighting the emergence of citizen journalism in news coverage. - Nokia says shipping touch-screen phone
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Oyj has started deliveries of its first touch-screen phone, the 5800, the mobile phone maker’s answer to Apple Inc’s iPhone. - Court says Internet baby to be taken into care
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Belgian baby bought over the Internet for adoption by a Dutch couple must be placed in the temporary care of the Dutch authorities, a court ruled on Thursday. - Shuttle astronaut invents zero-gravity cup
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Future space travelers may be drinking their own urine, thanks to the International Space Station’s new water recycler, but they can now do so with a touch of class. - Baidu vows overhaul after search scandal
BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s Internet search leader Baidu said on Friday it will overhaul operations after state media said it allowed unlicensed medical services to buy high search rankings to win more customers. - New, old media good for each other, Huffington says
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New media and old can clash and crowd each other out, but blogger extraordinaire Arianna Huffington argues in a new book that the two worlds are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other. - Germany plans lab tests for airport “naked scans”
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will begin laboratory tests in the next few weeks on full-body airport screening devices to see if they can produce images that do not show passengers naked, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday. - Apple offers limited Black Friday price cuts
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc’s much-anticipated Black Friday event offered consumers discounts on Mac computers, iPods and accessories at levels similar to years past, despite speculation about deeper price cuts. - Microsoft-Yahoo deal “total fiction:” report
LONDON (Reuters) - A report in the Sunday Times that Microsoft Inc is in talks with Yahoo Inc to buy the U.S. internet company’s online search business for $20 billion is “total fiction,” according to a key executive cited by an influential U.S. blog.
